Goldsmith Prize

The Goldsmith Awards Program encourages a more insightful, spirited
public debate about government, politics, and the press. The awards are
given by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public
Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University.

Trade:The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights
Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation, Gene Roberts and Hank
Klibanoff

Career Award for Excellence in Journalism

Daniel Schorr

2006 Goldsmith Prizes

Investigative Reporting

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Domestic Spying,”
The New York Times. The report revealed that the government was
systematically tapping into international telephone calls and email
traffic in the U.S. without court warrants.

Book Prize

Academic: Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes
American Politics, James A. Stimson

Trade:Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the
Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, Daniel C. Hallin and
Paolo Mancini